The Cecil Whig., 1887-05-07
HAZE AND CHEEK.
The Career of an EIktOn Boy.

likes VI ht NUN ouSStu, Sdlu III. i'u
vail, of Philadelphia, to a reporter o
The WING on Wednesday. The doctor
) is IA genial companion. and throwing him
self back comfortably in his chair. re
peated his remark. "GeS, the public
likes to be hambugged, and don't know
a better illustration of the fact, than the
career of one of your own Elkton boys
Let me tell you little story, how a pen
nilesS lad. has in short time amaSsed q
fortune by the Skillful use of his hair
supplemented by an inordnate amount
footed youngster ran wild up and down
your dusty streets. He was sharp and
shrewd by nature, and had he been born
IN large city, he would doubtless have
been member Of the noisy news boys
brigade. | cant say that his career in
any sense furnishes an example which
other boys reading can protitably initiate,
or which points moral, or should adorn
a tale, but il certainly does establish be-
yond doubt the truth of the gullability
of the American people, because | don't
believe that his career would be possible
in any other country under the sun than
in the United States. His name is Low
man, Harry Lowman, aud computed by
dollars and cents he is worth now fifty
money rapidly every day.
Now listen.
You know the beginning of his career,
for it was in this very printing office
that he essayeL a start in life. But he
was of restless temperament, aud the
prosy life of the composing room, was
too q liet for him. lie left Elkton very
soon, to hunt his fortune in wider field.
He made Wilmington his home for a
short time, and from that city was taken
to Philadelphia by his brother Frank
Lowman, who firing of the monotony of
FELTON, Delaware drug sore, had re-
moved to Philadelphia, and commenced
the drug business, which he successfully
prosecuted from the very start DR..
| Frank LDwman who since he left Elk
ton, had graduated in pharmacy, in con-
nection with his drug store had charge
of one hundl ed and seyenty-two small
houses, which as agent for their owner,
he kept i'll repair, collected the rents of,
aud managed generally. Needing assis-
tauce in their superintendence, he placed
his brother Harry in one of his houses,
and set him about the patching and re-
pairing which the properties constantly
a mechanic, or intended by nature TO
earn his living by the sweat of his brow,
but as the sequel shows was destined to
make his way IN the world by the use of
his wits. He was in and out of his
brothers drug store frequently, and with
a ready faculty quickly picked up a sup
erfCial knowledge OF cumpoundiug simple
prescriptions. Ole day to his brothers
surprise, he announced his intention to
leave him. having some time before asked
his assistance i'll preparing a formula or
Doctor's Remedy" His BROTHER at first
| treated the declaration as joke, but
sure enough one morning he disappeared,
and was absent several days. In the
meantime he had hunted up in the city
an old lndIan whom he had some how
learned of, and arraying The savage red
man in all the glory of his native forest,
procured at some second hand costumer's,
aud decorating him with turkey feathers
and red paint, he stationed him on the
side walk of a busy thoroughfare and
began business, by announcing to the
passing crowd, his recent arrival, from
the distant plains of Dakota. Aud in
deed Harry looked the Dakota COW boy
to perfection. With his long hair flow
ing down his shoulders, his swarthv COM
plexion shaded py a Mexican sombrero,
he told with glib tongue of the wonder
tul virtues of this still more wonderful
medicine, the secret of compromising
which he had nearly sacrificed his
valuable life, to acquire only after long
years of residence among the savage
tribes of the far West. Now Harry had
never been west of Havre de Grace on
the Susquehauna river i'll his life, but
still that dIdn t matter to the passing
crowd. He asked no quarter at their
hands, except their silver ones, and those
he got by hnndsful. He told his auditors
of his narrow escapes by flood and field,
aud exhibited his wounds received in
combat single handed with a hostile In
day when Wesley Freeman's big dog had
| bitten him on the leg while boy IN Elk
ton, that the scar made by the angry
cur, would some day prove a valuable
accessory in trade. But such was the
fact, and Harry piled his trade, jabbered
with the big Indian, paraded his wounded
leg, and piled up the ducats fast. At the
| end of months experience on the street
he returned to his brothers drug store,
paid off some little debts, and with four
| hundred dollars in his pockets, started OH
than before, and at the end OF second
month drove up again in wagon. The
public in the meantime having got a
taste of his medicine, which, like Col
| Mulberry Sellers eye water, cost sew
enty-tive cents a barrel and retailcd ut
one dollar a bottle, clamored for more.
The luSty doctor was equal to the de-
mands of trade. lie changed his name
and his team at the same time. He next
appeared with two horses to a barouche,
and his name was Doctor Lprman Still
suffering humanity cried for his slippery
syrup, and never cried in vain. The
doctor kept pace with the demand. Gold
poured in. Four horses hauled him
round the street, and gorgeous wagon
resplendaut in all the glory of circus
decoration carried concert troupe.
When his team came to Il halt, the show
began. Then he employed an advance
agent and started West, doubling his
day last year his double span of grey
drove into EIkton. The quiet inhabi-
tants Of High street where the unpre-
tending Lowmau homestead still stands.
little dreamed who owned it. 1t cost
over four thousand dollars, the wagon
and harness without the outfit costing